Department of Mechanical Engineering （中文版, CV/resume）

Patricia Soh-Khim ONG  王素琴副教授
BEng (Hons) NUS, PhD NUS

(Thesis advisor: Prof Andrew YC Nee)
Associate Professor

 

Fellow of CIRP, International Academy for Production Engineering

国际制造工程科学院(CIRP)院士(2012)

 

2004 M Eugene Merchant Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award

2004国际杰出青年制造工程师奖

 

2004 Singapore Youth Award, Science & Technology Category

2004新加坡杰出青年奖(科技组）

 

2006 The Outstanding Young Person of Singapore Award, Science & Technology Category

2006新加坡十大杰出青年奖(科技组）

 

2009 SWE Emerging Leaders Award in Academia

2009美国女性工程师协会脱出领袖奖(学术组）

 

S.K. Ong is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In November 2003, she was selected to receive the 2004 M. Eugene Merchant Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, where she is the 1st ASEAN female to have received this award since the award was 1st established.  She is also a recipient of the 2004 Singapore Youth Award for the Science & Technology Category. In 2005, she was elected an Associate Member of CIRP, The International Academy for Production Engineering, one of the most exclusive associations for manufacturing researchers in the world, she is the first female person in the Asia Pacific region to be elected. In August 2012, she is elected a Fellow of CIRP, where she is the first from the Asia region and the 4th female fellow in the world to be elected. In March 2006, she was awarded The Outstanding Young Person of Singapore Award for the Science & Technology Category. She was awarded the 2009 Emerging Leaders Award in Academia by the US Society for Women Engineers and she is the first Singaporean to have received this award since the award was established.

 

She served as the staff advisor to the Faculty's Students Engineering Club, chairperson for the Faculty Students' Color Award Committee, as well as chairperson of the Student Self-Development Advisory Committee for more than 10 years until 2006. She has served as a member of the NUS University Senate Delegacy from April 2005 to June 2006, and 1 July to 30 June 2011. Currently, she is as a member of the NUS University Senate Delegacy for a third term, and a member of the NUS Board of Disciplinary from 1 July 2011 - 30 Jun 2013. She is currently a Junior Faculty Member of the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering.

 

She was appointed by Singapore President SR Nathan to serve as a Nominated Member of the Singapore Parliament for a term of 2 ½ years from 2nd January 2005. She served as NMP from 2nd January 2005 to 19th April 2006.  She was the only NMP in the last batch of 9 NMPs to have raised an adjournment motion in the Parliament. The topic of her motion was Singapore’s National Research and Development Strategic Thrusts. She was a Resource Panel Member of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, Resource Panel for advising Women’s Workgroups on Women and Leadership, Work, Life Skills and Socio-Community Development, and a member of the Assistive Technology Workgroup, Singapore Society for Physically Disabled.

 

She is an Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leader. In 2006, S.K. Ong was elected to join a new generation of leaders representing a broad range of disciplines and 23 countries from across the Asia-Pacific region and the U.S.

 

 

Honours and Awards

 

Research Interests

 

Research Projects

 

Editorships

 

Recent Publications

 

Member of International Technical Committees of major conferences for the last few years

 

Modules Offered

 

Theses & Projects Supervision

 

Parliamentary Works

During her term as an NMP from 2nd January 2005 to 19th April 2006, she participated actively in the parliament debates on the President’s Address, the Annual Budget Debates in 2005 and 2006, development of the Integrated Resorts, National Kidney Foundation, and the Committees of Supply debates. She raised issues on and spoke on the Education System in Singapore, Singapore’s R&D landscape, assistance schemes to help men in need, as well as the schemes to help the low wage workers. She raised a total of 87 questions and issues, spoken on 6 Bills, and made 19 speeches, of which 6 speeches were made in Mandarin, during her term and had made good contribution to the debate on policy issues at the national level. The 6 Bills that she spoke on were (1) National Research Fund Bill, (2) Casino Control Bill, (3) National University of Singapore (Corporatisation) Bill, (4) Public Transport Council (Amendment) Bill, (5) Professional Engineers (Amendment) Bill, and (6) Town Councils (Amendment) Bill. She was the only NMP in the last batch of 9 NMPs to have raised an adjournment motion in the Parliament. The topic of her motion was Singapore’s National Research and Development Strategic Thrusts.

 

 

Opinions

 

Media Reports & Interviews

 

Office: EA-0X-XX
Tel: (65) 6516 2222
Fax: (65) 6779 1459

email: mpeongsk(at)nus.edu.sg

 

                                                                                                                                                        Singapore Youth Award 2004 - Citation Quote

 

 

Updated 11 September 2012

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